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Cedric Linder; Jesper Bruun; Arvid Pohl; Burkhard Priemer – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Social semiotic discussions about the role played by representations in effective teaching and learning in areas such as physics have led to theoretical proposals that have a strong common thread: in order to acquire an appropriate understanding of a particular object of learning, access to the disciplinary relevance aspects in the representations…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Competence
Paul R. Destefano; Ralf Widenhorn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] This manuscript presents a case study of an introductory physics student who, during the remote learning conditions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, found inspiration within a new, open-inquiry, project-based, laboratory curriculum…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Optics, Physics, Distance Education
Wang, Jianlan; Wang, Yuanhua; Wipfli, Kyle; Thacker, Beth; Hart, Stephanie – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Learning assistants (LAs) play an important role in inquiry-oriented physics instruction in large classrooms. LAs increase the teacher-student ratio and provide timely support to student exploration. Questioning is believed to be an advantageous strategy for LAs to scaffold student learning and maintain students as the agent of knowledge…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Physics, Large Group Instruction
Phillips, A. M.; Gouvea, E. J.; Gravel, B. E.; Beachemin, P. -H.; Atherton, T. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Computation is intertwined with essentially all aspects of physics research and is invaluable for physicists' careers. Despite its disciplinary importance, integration of computation into physics education remains a challenge and, moreover, has tended to be constructed narrowly as a route to solving physics problems. Here, we broaden Physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Models
Felker, Zachary; Chen, Zhongzhou – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We examine the effectiveness of a planning prompt intervention to reduce procrastination on online homework for college students. The intervention asked students to indicate their intention to earn small amounts of extra credit for completing assignments earlier and form a plan to realize their intentions. Students' learning behavior is measured…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Homework
Sirnoorkar, Amogh; Bergeron, Paul D. O.; Laverty, James T. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Researchers in physics education have advocated both for including modeling in science classrooms as well as promoting student engagement with sensemaking. These two processes facilitate the generation of new knowledge by connecting to one's existing ideas. Despite being two distinct processes, modeling is often described as sensemaking of the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
Oliver, Kristin A.; Werth, Alexandra; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Participation in undergraduate research experiences (UREs) has been identified as an important way of increasing undergraduate retention, interest, and identity within the sciences. Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been shown to have similar outcomes to UREs but can reach a larger number of students at one time and are…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Student Research, Scientific Research, Distance Education
Franklin, Maxwell; Brewe, Eric; Ponnock, Annette R. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study examines survey data from 2127 undergraduate women at the 2015 and 2019 American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in order to classify what led them to study physics. We use expectancy-value and self-efficacy theory to create a coding framework based on different types of value and efficacy…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Physics, Value Judgment
Lin, Jiabei; Xing, Yuting; Hu, Yudi; Zhang, Jian; Bao, Lei; Luo, Kaiqing; Yu, Keke; Xiao, Yang – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Students hold a variety of initial (mis)conceptions that are inconsistent with scientific knowledge and hinder their physics learning. The initial (mis)conceptions could coexist with the scientific ones, even after a conceptual change. Inhibitory control may help overcome initial (mis)conceptions. This study investigated if and how inhibitory…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Physics, Majors (Students), Science Education
Speirs, J. Caleb; Leuteritz, Robyn; Lê, Thanh K.; Deng, Rose; Ell, Shawn W. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Even after research-based instruction, students who demonstrate the ability to assemble relevant conceptual knowledge on one physics question may have difficulty assembling that same knowledge on a closely related problem. Recent research has suggested that reflexive, bottom-up reasoning processes seemingly unrelated to the physics concepts…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
Sulaiman, Nidhal; Werth, Alexandra; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
A large-enrollment, introductory physics laboratory course at the University of Colorado Boulder has undergone a recent transformation to help students' develop lab skills and better align students' views and beliefs about experimental physics with those of expert experimental physicists through engagement with authentic scientific practices. We…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
Stump, Emily M.; Dew, Matthew; Jeon, Sophia; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Prior research has indicated that students in the undergraduate physics lab divide work inequitably with regard to gender. In this work, we further probed women's experiences in lab group work, focusing on women who take on managerial and leadership roles in the lab. We interviewed and surveyed women enrolled in a sophomore-level project-based lab…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Physics, Science Instruction
Barthelemy, Ramón; Lenz, MacKenzie; Knaub, Alexis; Gerton, Jordan; Sandick, Pearl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In 2017 the University of Utah experienced a tragedy which catalyzed already active changes in the department. In the aftermath, admissions to the graduate program was paused while new policies were developed and implemented. This article outlines this change process through the perspectives and accounts of those involved. Through in-depth…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Change, State Universities
Olsho, Alexis; Smith, Trevor I.; Eaton, Philip; Zimmerman, Charlotte; Boudreaux, Andrew; White Brahmia, Suzanne – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We developed the Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy (PIQL) to assess students' quantitative reasoning in introductory physics contexts. The PIQL includes several "multiple-choice-multipleresponse" (MCMR) items (i.e., multiple-choice questions for which more than one response may be selected) as well as traditional single-response…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Science Tests, Physics, Measures (Individuals)
Suresh, Srividya; Heckler, Andrew F. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study investigates the evolution and associations between exam grades and social comparison concern (SCC) among students in an introductory calculus-based physics course. We begin with a descriptive characterization of midterm and final exam scores as well as pre-post SCC scores, including the concurrent evolution of these scores during the…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses